Integration Workflow

The end-to-end playbook for building or updating an Opik SDK integration. Run the phases in order.

Pick the language reference up front — python.md or typescript.md — and keep it open throughout.

Execution modes

• Autonomous (default for this command) — make every preparation yourself (install deps, find credentials, pick the backend), run all phases without stopping, self-verify, and finish with the Phase 8 report. Do not pause at the design gate; record the design in the report instead. Only stop early if you hit a true blocker you cannot resolve (missing API key with no fallback, an ambiguous product decision, a backend you cannot reach) — report what you completed and what's blocked.
• Interactive — same phases, but pause at Phase 3 to get the design approved before writing code. Use this when the user asks to review the plan first.

Either way, always end with the high-level report (Phase 8). Never invent results — every "supported" claim must be backed by a passing test or an MCP-verified trace; everything unverified goes under "not supported / not verified".

Phase 0 — Classify

• Mode: new (no integration exists), update (extend an existing one), or maintain (verify/repair an existing one). Maintain mode skips Phases 2–4 and runs Investigate → Verify → Test against current code to catch drift.
• Language: Python, TypeScript, or both. They are independent code paths; if both are requested, run the whole workflow once per language.
• Closest sibling: name the existing integration you will clone (see the decision tree in SKILL.md).

Phase 0.5 — Prepare (autonomous)

Get the environment ready yourself before investigating. Record what you did for the report; never print secret values.

• Install / resolve the target library into the SDK venv (sdks/python/.venv for Python; npm i in the integration package for TS). Capture the resolved version. If the install is broken or pulls an incompatible core dep (e.g. it bumps pydantic and breaks litellm), pin to a known-good version and restore the disturbed dep.
• Locate credentials without printing them: Python tests read the env block in sdks/python/tests/pytest.ini (e.g. MISTRALAI_API_KEY); also check the shell env. If the library's own default env var differs from the test var (e.g. SDK wants MISTRAL_API_KEY but the test sets MISTRALAI_API_KEY), read the test var explicitly and pass it to the client.
• Pick the verification backend: the connected Opik MCP reads one backend — confirm which (list its projects) and that it's reachable. Log the verification run there so the MCP can read it back. Use a dedicated scratch OPIK_PROJECT_NAME (e.g. <name>-integration-demo).
• Note blockers: if a credential or backend is missing and has no fallback, record it — the run can still produce code + offline (fake_backend) tests, with live MCP verification marked "not verified".

Phase 1 — Investigate

Understand the target library before touching Opik. Prefer fanning out parallel explore agents over the library's installed source / docs.

Answer all of these:

• Entrypoint shape — Is it a client object with methods (→ patching/proxy), a callback/tracer interface (→ callback), or already OpenTelemetry-instrumented? If it emits OTel, first decide whether a docs-only OTLP-to-Opik setup suffices (backend does the mapping) before committing to a client-side processor/exporter — see the OTel notes in the language reference.
• Methods to trace — the specific calls users invoke (e.g. chat.complete, embed, rerank). List sync and async variants, and treat structured-output methods (parse, response_format=…) and their streaming variants as in-scope by default — don't defer them to "follow-ups" unless the user says so. Enumerate the full cross-product up front (complete/parse × sync/async × stream/non-stream).
• Streaming — does a streamed call return an iterator/async-iterator, a context manager, or emit events? How are chunks shaped, and where does usage land (final chunk? separate event?)?
• Input — the request fields worth logging (messages, prompt, tools/functions, model params).
• Output — where the completion text / choices / tool calls live in the response object.
• Usage — the token-count field names, and whether the provider is one Opik recognizes for cost tracking (opik.types.LLMProvider).
• Errors — what exceptions the library raises.

Read the closest sibling integration in full — it is the template, and most decisions are already made there.

Clone-ability checkpoint (do this before designing). "Clone the closest sibling" only holds if the target is actually a clean analog. Before committing, confirm it — and if any of these are true, surface it as a design decision even in autonomous mode instead of silently picking:

• The library exposes multiple incompatible client classes or versions (e.g. a v1 Client and a v2 ClientV2 with different method signatures and response shapes). Decide which to support, and whether both are in scope.
• The usage/token shape differs from the sibling's (so the sibling's usage parser won't just work and you need custom mapping).
• The response/streaming shape is materially different from the sibling's.
• Methods delegate to each other. Check whether a higher-level method calls a lower-level one you also patch (e.g. Mistral's chat.parse calls chat.complete; some SDKs' stream calls create). Patching both naively double-logs the call and double-counts cost. Read the delegating method's source to find this. The idiomatic fix is to patch only the primitive and name the span after that primitive (see python.md) — verify the span count and cost in Phase 5.

A target that looks like "just another provider" but has any of the above is not a clean clone — say so before writing code.

Phase 2 — Collect

Produce two artifacts in the scratchpad before designing:

1. A minimal runnable example script that exercises the target library directly (no Opik yet) — one non-streaming call, one streaming call, and any second method you plan to trace. This is what you'll later run in Phase 5 to verify logging.

2. A findings note — a short mapping table:

   Opik span field	Source in the library's request/response
   input	…
   output	…
   usage	…
   model	…
   provider	…
   span type	llm / tool / general

Phase 3 — Design

Decide and write down:

• The pattern (from the decision tree) and why it fits.
• The file layout (use the skeleton in the language reference).
• The public entrypoint name and signature — match sibling conventions (track_<name> for Python patching; trackXxx / XxxCallbackHandler / XxxExporter for TS).
• The methods to patch/handle and the field mapping from Phase 2.

In interactive mode, present this and wait for approval before writing code. In autonomous mode, proceed — but capture the design and any open questions (e.g. dedicated integration vs. an OpenAI-compatible docs page) in the Phase 8 report so the reviewer sees the decisions.

Phase 4 — Implement

• Copy the closest sibling's structure and adapt it. Reuse the shared core utilities listed in the language reference — never re-derive span/trace creation, error collection, or usage parsing.
• Keep the framework import inside the integration module (Python) or as a peerDependency (TS); never import it at SDK package top level.
• Preserve the library's original behavior: wrap, capture, re-raise. The integration must be transparent when tracing is disabled.

Phase 5 — Verify via Opik MCP

This is the proof that the integration actually logs correctly. Do not rely on reading code.

Verifiability is a hard gate for new/update. If you cannot run this phase — no API credential for the target, or no reachable backend the MCP can read — stop and surface it before writing integration code, in autonomous mode too. Do not produce an integration and then present it as done with verification "skipped": unverified integration code is the exact failure this skill exists to prevent. Offer the user the choice to supply a credential, proceed explicitly-unverified (clearly labelled, tests key-gated and skipped), or pick a different target. Only maintain mode on already-passing code may relax this.

1. Point at a backend the MCP can read — and confirm it. The connected Opik MCP reads one specific backend/workspace, which is often not the one in ~/.opik.config (e.g. MCP → a hosted *.dev.comet.com, local config → localhost). Before relying on the MCP, confirm they match: log a trace, then try to read its project through the MCP. If the MCP can't see it, the backends differ. Either reconfigure the script's env (OPIK_API_KEY, OPIK_URL_OVERRIDE/base URL, OPIK_WORKSPACE, OPIK_PROJECT_NAME) to log into the MCP's backend, or fall back to SDK read-back (next note). Don't silently assume the MCP sees your trace.
2. Run the Phase 2 example through the new integration (wrap the client / attach the handler), exercising the non-streaming call, the streaming call, and each extra method. Call flush() before exit.
3. Read it back through the MCP — use the opik-mcp list (entity_type trace, filtered by the project) then read (entity_type trace, which inlines spans; read span for detail).
4. Check the trace/span tree against the Phase 2 mapping:
   • one trace per top-level call; span hierarchy matches the call structure
   • span type is correct (llm for model calls)
   • input / output captured and well-shaped (not empty, not the raw object dump)
   • usage present with prompt/completion/total tokens
   • model and provider set correctly
   • streamed calls produce the same shape as non-streamed (aggregated output + usage)
   • an induced error records error_info and still re-raises
   • no duplicate spans / double cost — a call to a delegating method (e.g. parse) produces exactly one span, and its total_estimated_cost is not doubled
   • nesting — a traced call made inside an @track function attaches as a child span of that function's span
5. Loop until the logged data matches. Fix the integration, re-run, re-read.

SDK read-back fallback (equivalent evidence). When the MCP can't read the backend you can write to, verify against that backend over REST instead: client = opik.Opik(); client.search_traces(project_name=...) then client.search_spans(trace_id=...), and assert the same checklist (type, input/output, usage, model, provider). This is a real backend round-trip — note in the report that read-back was via the SDK, not the MCP tool, and why.

Phase 6 — Test

Add coverage with the language's harness — see the test section of the language reference, which delegates to the python-sdk / typescript-sdk testing skills.

• Python: sdks/python/tests/library_integration/<name>/, using fake_backend and testlib TraceModel/SpanModel trees with ANY_* matchers. Assert input/output/usage/model/provider. Gate real API calls behind an ensure_<name>_configured fixture. Name tests test_<what>__<case>__<expected>. Cover every enumerated flow — including parse/structured-output variants, the delegating-method single-span case, and one nested-under-@track case (asserts the LLM span attaches as a child).
• TypeScript: *.test.ts with vitest, mocking the API layer (or MSW), await flush() before asserting, fake timers for batching. Mirror the sibling integration's test file.

Register the tests in CI (Python) — this is part of "done", not optional. The tests/library_integration/<name>/ files run only if wired into GitHub Actions:

1. Create .github/workflows/lib-<name>-tests.yml by cloning the closest sibling (e.g. lib-anthropic-tests.yml): set the provider's API-key env from secrets.<PROVIDER>_API_KEY, install library_integration/<name>/requirements.txt, run pytest -vv . in the test dir. Unless asked otherwise, pin a single Python version (matrix.python_version: ["3.12"]) instead of the full PYTHON_VERSIONS matrix.
2. Register it in .github/workflows/lib-integration-tests-runner.yml: add <name> to the libs workflow_dispatch choices, add a <name>_tests job (if: contains(fromJSON('["<name>", "all"]'), …) + uses: the new file + secrets: inherit), and add it to the notify-slack job's needs list and SUITE_RESULTS payload.
3. Flag that the run needs a <PROVIDER>_API_KEY repository secret to exist, and validate both YAML files parse.

Phase 7 — Document

Author the Fern page following the write-docs skill for MDX/components, plus these integration-specific conventions:

• Check for an existing page first. A provider often already has a docs page describing a workaround (OpenAI-compatibility endpoint via track_openai, or LiteLLM) and an entry already in fern/versions/latest.yml. If so, this is an update: lead the page with the new native integration and demote the workaround to an "Alternative" section (see how mistral.mdx keeps LiteLLM). Don't create a duplicate page or a second routing entry.
• File: apps/opik-documentation/documentation/fern/docs-v2/integrations/<name>.mdx for Python, <name>-typescript.mdx for TypeScript.
• Title frontmatter distinguishes language: Observability for <Lib> (Python) with Opik vs (TypeScript).
• Page shape (follow openai.mdx / langchain.mdx): intro/tips → account setup → getting started (install, configure Opik, configure the library) → basic usage (the wrap/handler call + a screenshot) → advanced usage → cost tracking → supported methods.
• Routing: add a - page: entry under the right language → category section (Frameworks, Model Providers, …) in fern/versions/latest.yml. Do not edit docs.yml.
• Overview grid: add a <Card> to docs-v2/integrations/overview.mdx under the matching section. Cards are title + href only; section icons are Font Awesome — there is no per-integration icon to create.
• Use credential placeholders only (<API_KEY>), never real keys.

Phase 8 — Report (always)

End every run with a high-level report. Keep it scannable — it's for a reviewer deciding whether to ship, not a changelog. Use this template:

## <Library> integration — report

**Mode:** new | update | maintain   **Language:** Python | TypeScript
**Pattern:** method-patching | proxy | callback | OTel exporter   **Entrypoint:** `track_<name>(...)`
**Library version prepared:** <name>==<version>

### What was done
- <files created/changed — bullets, grouped by integration / tests / docs>
- <prep actions: deps installed, version pins, fixtures/env added>

### Verification
- **MCP:** <project name + trace ids read back, or "not verified — <reason>">
- **Tests:** <N passing — list cases>; ruff/mypy <clean | issues>

### Flows supported & test coverage

Always enumerate **every user-facing flow** the integration handles and map each to its coverage — don't collapse this into a one-line "supported". A flow is a distinct way a user invokes the library; enumerate the cross-product that applies: each traced method, sync vs async, streaming vs non-streaming, nested under `@track`, the error path, and any option that changes behavior (custom `project_name`, `provider` override, tool/function calls, structured output). For each flow state whether it's implemented, which test covers it (by name), and whether it was MCP-verified.

| Flow | Implemented | Test | MCP-verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| `chat.complete` (sync, non-stream) | ✅ | `test_<name>_complete__happyflow` | ✅ trace `<id>` |
| `chat.complete_async` | ✅ | `test_<name>_complete_async__happyflow` | — |
| `chat.stream` (sync) | ✅ | `test_<name>_stream__happyflow` | ✅ trace `<id>` |
| `chat.stream_async` | ✅/❌ | … | … |
| nested under `@track` | ✅/❌ | … | … |
| error → `error_info` logged | ✅ | `test_<name>__error...` | — |
| token usage captured | ✅ | asserted in above | ✅ |
| custom `project_name` | ✅/❌ | param case | — |

Explicitly flag the gaps: any flow **implemented but not covered by a test**, and any flow **not implemented at all** (list it in the next section). The goal is that a reviewer can see, per flow, exactly what was proven.

### What's NOT supported / limitations
- <methods intentionally not patched, flows implemented-but-untested, known gaps, provider-not-in-LLMProvider caveats, env/backend blockers>

### Follow-ups
- <suggested next steps: more methods, TS counterpart, PR split, etc.>

### How to use
<minimal code snippet>

Definition of done

Implementation merged-quality, MCP verification passed (Phase 5 checklist) or its absence reported, tests added and passing and registered in CI (Python: lib-<name>-tests.yml + runner wiring), docs page authored and routed, and the Phase 8 report delivered. Then run make claude if you added/edited files under .agents/.